论女性成长的自我主体构建——重读《芒果街上的小屋》

On the Construction of Feminie Subject in The House on Mango Street

《芒果街上的小屋》是美国当代墨西哥裔女作家桑德拉·希斯内罗丝撰写的一部自传式的女性成长小说。小说女主人公埃斯佩朗莎眼中的女性形象和成长体验以日记体形式呈现,"叙述自我"不仅构建自我主体,而且通过想象和移情的手法来审视"经验自我"。这种女性的叙述形式表现了对父权制束缚女性成长的反思,展现了女性成长中构建自我主体身份的特殊过程。除了自传式的日记体写作,对母亲身份女性的关注与述行性主体构建的女性主义视角有助于作品细读:不仅可以挖掘女主人公埃斯佩朗莎在族裔、性别、贫富及文化差异背景下对自我主体构建的强烈追求,又揭示她对唤醒女性自我意识的充分自觉与重建女性自我主体的历史责任。

The House on Mango Street written by Mexican American Sandra Cisneros is an autobio- graphic feminine initiation novel, in which the heroine Esperanza describes her growth experience and feminine figures in a Spanish-speaking community of Chicago in 1960s in the form of diary in order to construct a new self, while examining experience self via the association and transference. Therefore, the novel shows a special process about feminine subject identity in growth by the means of feminine narration to rebel the oppression from the patriarchy. Besides, it is of great help to close read the novel from the feminine perspective by analyzing the characters of mother and performantive subject, so it is accessible to understand better the persistent effort and the absolute awareness to reconstruct the femi- nine subject in the culture background with ethic, class and gender different from the mainstream.